Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-12-19 10:37 (GMT-0800) peasth...@shaw.ca composed: > >> From: Rugxulo > >>> FDISK creates at least one partition (primary, active, FAT, presumably >>> bootable) for DOS. (This is written into the partition table, ... > >> OK. If

Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-19 10:37 (GMT-0800) peasth...@shaw.ca composed: > From: Rugxulo >> FDISK creates at least one partition (primary, active, FAT, presumably >> bootable) for DOS. (This is written into the partition table, ... > OK. If it damages the table in the process, there will be > a problem acces

Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:04 PM, wrote: > > Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. > The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install > FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains > and wants to "format the disk". Does it really want to > format the whole di

Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Hall
On Monday, December 17, 2012, wrote: > Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. > The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install > FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains > and wants to "format the disk". Does it really want to > format the whole disk containi

[Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-17 Thread peasthope
Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains and wants to "format the disk". Does it really want to format the whole disk containing 4 parts? Does it intend to format onl